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JULY 26, 1924. THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA 3 HERRIOT STAND AGAINST CONCILIATION RESENTED Peace in France, Born Dur ing Days of War, Imperiled by New Premier’s Attitude. By M. Massiani. (Paris Correspondent, N. C. W. C. News Service.) Paris.—It was with actual stupe faction, that French Catholic opin ion has watched M. Herrit, immedi ately after his rise to power, write into his program projects which ap pear to menace the religious peace of the nation; the suppression of the Vatican embassy, the strict ap plication of the laws on religious orders, the introduction in Alsace- Lorraine of the regime of the sepa ration and of French laws with drawing from public schools the character of private denominational schools. ' It was well known that the par ties comprising the Left Bloc were not favorali^g to the policy of con ciliation of church and state car ried out by the National Bloc. It was known that they would not continue this policy and would grant no further satisfaction to the Catholics. But the general opinion was that Catholics would not be deprived of the advantages they had obtained during the past few years. On the one hand, the atmosphere of strife which had poisoned all public lifp in the days of Combism seemed to have vanished and - it was reasonable to think that no man. of coiymon sense would revive it at a time when the thought of those in charge of the government of the nation are preoccupied by so many matters of vital impor tance. And then, there was the touching lesson of fraternity taught by the war, the sacred union, as it was called. The memory of relig ious dissension was, apparently, held in abhorrence and no party had had the imprudence to insert in its platform anything which would revive it. In short it was admitted that the religious ques tion had not been raised. Furthermore, moderation seemed the mpre necessary as the winners in the elections of May 11 had won a very hard victory. While they won more than 100 seats, this was due solely to the peculiarity and faultiness of the electoral law. The defeat of the National Bloc, if one considers the number of votes cast, was not overwhelming. It polled iil.780 Votes in 1919 when it had e. majority, and it polled 30,420,000 this year, which means that it lost only one twentieth of its votes. AT MASS DAILY FOR FIFTY YEARS Miss Julia Glancy who has died at Ncnaugh, Tipperary County, had made a remarkable record. She had attended daily mass in the parish Church for fifty years. Priest-Scientist Finds Primitive Races in India Believe in Diety Tribes of Dwarfs Discovered in Pathless Jungles, Out of Touch With Civilization, Ha ve Monotheistic Religion and Practice Monogamy—Explorers Suffer Great Hardships w. By Dr. Frederick Funder (Vienna Correspondent N. C. Servic.) Vienna.—The Mission House of St. Gabriel near Vienna, which is under the direction of the Society of the Divine Word, has put at the dis posal of the N. C. W. News Service correspondents a letter of leather Paul Schebesta. S. V. D., a member of the staff of the distinguished periodical “Anthropos,” which has been received from further India. Father Schebesta belongs to the group of ethnological explorers whom the the well-known scientist, Father Wilhelm Schmidt has rallied round himself and to whom are "due the important discoveries of a religious and scientific character a- mong the aborigines of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago. The learned missionary is at jrresent on a tour of exploration which has led him to the dwarf tribes who live in the primeval forests of the Indian province of IJcrak. Little has been known so far of these races of difficult accessibility, and nothing definite of their religious notions. HARPER BROS Art Store 426 Eighth St. Phone 730. Augusta, Ga. To Those Desiring 6% Safe Investments We Recommend and Offer for Sale six per cent notes secured by Trust Deed on Catholic Church Property In Denominations of $500 and $1,000 John A. Schmidt & Co. 10 S. LaSalle St. Chicago. Telephone Dearborn 7380. Signs and Outdoor Advertising MILLIGAN ADVERTISING SERVICE AUGUSTA, GA. THIS IS A QUALITY YEAR BUY A RUUD E. F. BRODERICK PLUMBER 234 Drayton St. Phone 853. Savannah. Ga. PLAZA MARKET FISH, MEAT AND GROCERIES Telephone 1845. 512 9th St. Augusta, Ga. JOHN J. COOLEY’S Jewelry Shop Expert W’atch and Jewelry Repairing. Experience With Dwarf Tribes In Father Schcbesta’s letter which has been shown to me, he reports on his experience with the dwarf tribe of the “Sakai," a harmless, shy clan, living in forests difficult to approach. Their civilization is primitive. “The Sakai,” Father Schebesta writes, “do not know the art of pottery. They boil the rice in tubes of bamboo, but their ordinary food consists of fruits or roots which are dug out with pointed sticks, pared off, and roasted on fire. They seem to eat little meat. The dwarfs are very clever in using the blow-gun with which they hunt small animals and birds. They seldom use the bow and arrow. “Their religion seems to be a sort of crude monotheism. They wor ship some supreme being called Karei. In one instance I got a very interesting answer to my ques tion what Karei was. Always T had heard the same answer, that he was thunder or the sun' or that he was living on high. In this par ticular intance, however, a young chieftain gave me the answer that Karei was like a pengulu (chieftain) or rada (prince). He was living on high and had made everything: men, trees, stones, etc. He some times thundered and demanded blood. “During heavy thunderstorms, blood is actually offered to Karei. This is done only by women. They slightly cut their shin, take water in their hollow hands, mix it with blood and throw it up. region one case only is known of Sakai who had more than one wife and this one has adopted Ma layan customs to a great extent.” Interesting is the description the missionary explorer gives of the country which is the home of these tribes: “There are no roads lead ing through the forests, only path ways trodden out by men and elephants. As rain pours down every afternoon, one can travel in the forenoon. The climate is not so hot here as in Africa (Father Schebesta has been living as mis sionary and explorer in Portuguese South Africa for seven years) but much damper, so that you are con tinually wet either from perspiration or rain or the waters of the rivers, for you get too tired to take off your clothes when passing again and again through the many brooks and rivers. ‘The tiger is to be found in these fores's but is not feared as much as the elephant, which in some regions appear in large herds. Poisonous snakes are numerous. One day our raft was chased by an enormous water snake swimming at a great speed. We could keep, it off only by the use of big poles. The Terrible Leeches “But the most terrible thing for the traveler are the leches which are thin qnd have a length of one and one-lialf to two inches. Some times the roads are covered with these ugly animals. They jump on to the feet of the traveler. If not pulled off they will not fall before they have sucked their fill of blood. The wounds they make bleed heavily. It is really disgust ing to have to touch these pests, but it cannot be helped. Some- French Architects Thank Rockefeller f orDonation (By N. C. W. C. News Service) Paris.—The associations of French architects, meeting at Rheims for their general as sembly, passed a resolution de claring that “deeply impressed by their visit to the cathedral, the architects send a tribute of gratitude to the great American philanthropist, Roc k e feller” through whose generosity to the French committee on historical monuments, the sum of' five million francs is to be devoted to the restoration of the cathe dral. The donation will be de voted especially to the roof and the reconstruction of the “angel’s’s tower.” Council of Catholic Women Holds Notable State Gather ing at Los Angeles. Dwarfs Monogamists “The dwarfs of Jeram and Jahai bury their dead, but those of Bukit do not; they leave them unburied and run awny for fear of diseases. The dwarfs are nomads and wander about with their camps as their need of food may dictate. Each family has a hut of its own. Mono gamy is practiced generally. In this times I had them all over my body. They even got into my boots. Only when my socks were soaked with blood was I aware of their presence. They are the greatest nuisance to the traveler. “I now plan”, F’ather Schebesta goes on, an exploration of the i dwarf tribes living in adjacent Siam and as soon as I shall have sufficient information, intend to settle for some length of time in a suitable place to study the lang uage, customs and ideas of these sympathetic tiny people.” Atheistic Science Discredited Even the results so far attained by this priest-explorer, corroborate the old experience namely that all primitive peoples have a mono theistic religion. This truth has been established at the price of great hardships by Catholic scien tists, who, by their explorations a- mong the primitives, have made a real contribution to religious his tory. 'The claim of atheistic science that religion was not coincident with man’s creation, but an inven tion of a much later period, has been demonstrated by these self- saeificing Catholic scientists to be wholly at variance with the tradi tions of the still primitive peoples of the world, who without contact with civilization are found to have now and probably always to have had, belief in a Supreme Being. (By N. C. W. C. News Service) Los Angeles., Cal.—The first an nual convention of the Los Angeles and San Diego Council, National Council of the Catholic Women held here, proved to be the most notable gathering of Catholic wo men the West Coast has yet seen. Its reports indicated strides toward complete organization in the last two. years that were almost start ling, and brought to the city wel fare workers and others of nation al prominence. • Representatives of eight counties and of six orders of Sisters attend ed. Within the two weeks preceding the convention, it was reported, forty organizations in Southern Cali fornia had joined the Council. The organization has gone on with the encouragement of Bishop Cantwell, who has pushed the movement at every possible point. CHURCH 8b0 YEARS OLD BURNS Tours.—One of France’s priceless national historical monuments was lost May 20 when fire destroyed the twelfth century Catholic church near here. The physical damage is estimated at $25,000. and is irrepara ble. Ancient wall paintings of the greatest value were destroyed. SISTERS HELD AT ELLIS ISLAND ARE ADMITTED Immigration Bureau Rules Nurses Should Not Be De nied Admission to Country. (By N. C. W. C. News Service) New York.—Twenty-eight Catholic Sisters, who came to this country to become nurses in hospitals con ducted by their orders and who had been held at Ellis Island three weeks as in excess of the quotas of their respective countries, were ad mitted Monday, on orders from the Immigration Bureau, Department of Labor, at Washington. The admission of the compara tively large number of Nuns clears up a perplexing situation created by 'differing interpretations of the immigration laws of the United States. Recently there have been several such incidents, but the legal technical problems now having been threshed out, this, it is confidently expected, will be the last. The group that has just been ad mitted included three parties, all of which arrived about June 2d.. One party included fourteen German Nuns who came to the “Guiseppe Verdi” from their mother house in Rome and were on tlicir way to the convent of the Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother at Marshfield, Wis. In the party were six Sis ters and eight postulants. They purposed to complete their studies as nurses in this country. A second party came on the “Bre men,” and included nine German Sisters of the Poor, bound for St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, Lafayette,'Ind. All had had training as nurses ex cept one, who was a teacher. The third group was made up of five Irish Nuns, members of the Sisters of Nazareth Orfer. They arrived on the “Berengaria” and were going to San Diego. They will teach and nurse orphans and aged persons. ENGLISH CHURCH CONSECRATED London.—Eighty years ago it was planned that Cardinal Wiseman, archbishop of Westminster, shou d consecra e the church at Brewood. Staffordshire. The arrangement was, however, never carried out and the church remained unconsecrated until this week, when Wiseman’s successor. Cardinal Bourne, visited the church immediately after its consecration by the archbishop of Liverpool. 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It appears under the department of Notes and _ Sug gestions, with the caption “Lincoln and Catholicism. ’ and is signed by Carl Russell Fish, Professor of American History at the University of Wisconsin. Professor Fish says: “In ‘An American Protestant Protest against the Defilement of True Art by Roman Catholicism,’ recently circulated by the million. Abraham Lincoln is quoted as say ing. “Unfortunately, I feel more and more every day, that it is not against the Americans of the South alone I am fighting. It is more against the Pope of Rome, his per fidious Jesuits, and their blind and bloodthirsty slaves . . . that we have to defend ourselves. ... It is to popery that we owe this terri ble war. I would have laughted at the man who would have told me that before I became President. . . . Now I see the mystery.’ “Students are perfectly well aware that no such quotation is to be found in the works of Lincoln, they know that the spirit of the quota tion is contrary to the whole char acter of Lincoln’s thought and ex pression, they are familiar with the fact that on its face it is not less absurd to attribute such a state ment to Lincoln than it is to ac cuse the papacy of such a position. Arc they equally conscious of the danger that lies in the fabrication of such forgeries? All men of prominence after death are liable to such misrepresentation. At the present time, however, and in the United States, Lincoln is the chief victim. Many similar inventions are being continually circulated un der his name, in order to attach his great prestige to this cause or that, and the general public is not in a position to tell the true from the false. “Is it not the duty of historians to meet this current falsification? 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